100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design

100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design takes a fresh look at Swiss typography and photo-graphics, posters, corporate image design, book design, journalism and typefaces over the past hundred years. With illuminating essays by prominent experts in the field and captivating illustrations, this book, designed by the Zurich studio NORM, presents the diversity of contemporary visual design while also tracing the fine lines of tradition that connect the work of different periods. The changes in generations and paradigms as manifested in their different visual languages and convictions are organized along a timeline as well as by theme. The various fields of endeavor and media are described, along with how they relate to advertising, art, and politics. Graphic design from Switzerland reflects both itnernational trends and local concerns. High conceptual and formal quality, irony and wit are its constant companions. A new, comprehensive reference work on Swiss design.

• Logo Modernism (English, French and German Edition)
• Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)
• How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things, Make Things Look Better, Make People Laugh, Make People Cry, and (Every Once in a While) Change the World 
• Swissted: Vintage Rock Posters Remixed and Reimagined
• The Vignelli Canon
• History of Graphic Design: Vol. 1, 1890-1959 (Multilingual Edition)
• Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design
• The Visual History of Type
• 30 Years of Swiss Typographic Discourse in the Typografische Monatsblätter: TM RSI SGM 1960-90
• Design As Art (Penguin Modern Classics)